George Lim is Chairman of the Singapore International Mediation Centre. He is a Senior Counsel and was President of the Law Society of Singapore between 1998-1999. George has mediated close to 500 cases with a success rate of 75-80 percent. His mediation practice covers banking, finance, joint ventures, construction, professional negligence, partnerships, family, and cross-border disputes.
George is the co-editor of Mediation in Singapore: A Practical Guide. He was Singapore’s mediation consultant to UNCITRAL Working Group II, which led to the adoption of the Singapore Convention on Mediation.
In 2019, he was appointed to the Roster of Panel Chairs of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) on Dispute Settlement. In 2020, he was identified by The International Who’s Who of Commercial Mediation as being among 429 of the world’s leading commercial mediators and was named a global thought-leader in mediation.
